The ruffian who had attacked him was not content with knocking him down, but continued brutally kicking him after he had fallen, and did not desist until his victim was lying still, as though dead.
As it was, he struggled and swore at them who interfered, and endeavored again to assault the half-throttled ruffian whom they had just lifted to his feet.
Is it strange she had lost all affection for the brutal ruffian who had the right, by law, to call her his wife?
Before any one could reply a heavy tread was heard, and looking through the crevice Ned made the startling announcement that the ruffian had returned.
The ruffian slammed the door and bolted it, and the next instant his heavy retreating footsteps shook the rotten floor.
Hocker had already taken Moxley to the boat and seated him; the ruffian had lost his defiant manner, and was cowed and sullen.
The ruffian kept up his abuse and called Bug all manner of vile names until he was compelled to stop for sheer want of breath.
The boys tremblingly obeyed, and when they were grouped before the door the ruffian added, "Now go through your pockets and lay everything you have on this log.
Of such dire import did the question seem to the ruffian that he ventured to strike a match--little dreaming what the impulse would cost him.
You would expect a ruffian like Lord Harry to marry a woman like himself.
And soon the ruffian had consum'd The gold he gain'd so ill, And years of secret guilt pass'd on And he was needy still.
Even if I did run you into a difficulty, do you really think I'm ruffian enough to tell you that the money was there if it were untrue?
But it would have gone badly with me if the ruffian had struck an inch lower.
He might be cruel, a mere adventurer, or a thorough ruffian for all that was known of him.
We remember when an open door meant "way for a ruffian and a fool to trample upon the solitary and sorrowful!
His real hope was to catch the ruffian whom he secretly believed to be still in the wood.
We had no way to retreat, an' that ruffian yonder told his men not to let one of us escape.
Indeed, they were by no means sure that the ruffian had escaped drowning.
The name of the Tory ruffian was familiar to all, and the angry and excited men swarmed from both sides into the middle-room.
A wicked smile showed how well pleased the ruffian was with his orders.
The face was followed by a long-barrelled musket, but the ruffian did not at once raise it to his shoulder.
We'll settle with the ruffian another time," he said.
The ruffian could hardly conceal his disappointment when he failed to find what he wanted.
The foul ruffian pretended to consent, but while he helped the officer out of the water with his left hand, with his right he drove a tomahawk into his brain.
The ruffian rose a little higher, leveled his rifle, and fired.
And Glass--who is the worst ruffian I ever knew--has tried his best to get all of your party killed ever since he learned you were bound for the same place.
So that ruffian is still alive, an' there's likely half a dozen more to keep him company.
The ruffian finally wearied of his pastime and walked toward the cabin, which was now nearly consumed.
Now the police suspicions fell shrewdly on Dan Ogle, a notorious ruffian of the neighbourhood.
But one big ruffian lagged behind, scowling and murmuring rebelliously.
Dan Ogle, shrink as he might from Captain Nat face to face (as any ruffian in Blue Gate would), was as ready to stab him in the back for vengeance as for gain.
Quick at the chance, a ruffian took him under the armpits and dragged him from among the trampling feet to a near entry, out of the glare.
It might have been done by anyruffian camp-follower who struck the blow only with the hope of carrying off my chain and purse.
McBain entered the ring in a very businesslike fashion indeed; he begged for room; he told the mob he meant thrashing the ruffian if he did not apologise to the poor lad.
And she wondered why she had sirred a cut-throat looking ruffian such as this.
Wilcox was not sure whether the ruffian struck Heywood when the latter staggered to the cashier's chair, and he did not stop to see if he was dead when he fell.
The ruffian then seized him by the collar and dragging him toward the safe drew out a long, keen edged knife, and posing it over Heywood's throat, threatened to cut it from ear to ear if he did not at once open the safe.
With a rude grasp that tore open her dress, exposing her beautiful white shoulder and bosom, the ruffian pulled her toward him.
Jim never saw one of these carrion birds soaring overhead but his thoughts instantly reverted to the frontier ruffian and his horrible craving.
When you have found the ruffian and murdered him, I shall be glad to hear your news.
She informed me that the ruffian was in the house and had attempted to make away with her--" "Dear me!
He turned quickly in search of the speaker, but, although he felt persuaded it was Desborough who had spoken, coupling his own name even with his curses, the ruffian was no where to be seen.
The last assassination had been committed with circumstances of such ferocity that the ruffian made up his mind, and with reason, that he should be condemned to death.
In lieu of the dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to see, there lay a mere child, sunk in a deep sleep.
It seems impossible," Rubini said, in a tone almost of awe, "that a minister should fight with his hands against a ruffian of that kind.
There in the sand lay the ruffian transfixed by a slender native spear, which had gone with unerring aim through his neck; we had to break off the point and draw the shank through.
We could even see the brave girl lean aside, and strike with all her might at the ruffian with the light whip she carried.
The street ruffian had one eye blackened and a tooth knocked out, and went down in a heap more than dazed.
When the street ruffian saw Randy his face changed color and he wanted to run away, but Jones grabbed him and so did Malloy.
The street ruffian pulled a small roll of bills from his pocket.
The ruffian had seized a tumbler of liquor from the table, and held it toward Sheppard while he brandished his long knife.
Your grace will think, when you behold the man, He's rather a wild ruffian than a mayor.
The astonished ruffian hesitated, and then fell back a step.
The other man was a stalwart ruffian called "Arkansas," who carried two revolvers in his belt and a bowie knife projecting from his boot, and who was always drunk and always suffering for a fight.
On this morning, being the fifth since the Petrel's crew had been received on board, the mate came up to Baptiste and made some remarks to him which set the wily ruffian thinking.
Carew, in his present mood, felt a reluctant admiration for the cool and cynical ruffian before him.
